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ESL and Facebook to keynote Esports Bar Cannes 2018 with fireside chat

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Esports BAR has announced that Facebook and ESL will come together for a dual keynote, a fireside chat between ESL CEO Ralf Reichert and Facebook’s Patrick Chapman, gaming and esports partnerships.  The topic of the title is "Esports Comes of Age: A Battleplan for Mainstream Reach" and will discuss a …

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Facebook adds more monetisation options to Instant Games Platform

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Facebook has announced the next phase of its Instant Games Platform. The changes will be made available via two updates that include more monetisation options and scaling tools for developers to allow them to submit and launch more games.  Launched last year, Instant Games for Messenger started with just 20 …

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A torrent of video: IGN and Facebook on Gamescom 2017

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Video is now the lingua franca of gaming coverage – and at this year’s Gamescom it came, as ever, in a myriad of forms: studio-style news coverage and interviews, game preview footage, live gameplay streams, esports coverage, or the numerous chattier, personality-driven formats that proliferate on YouTube and Twitch.  Of course, …

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Facebook Live grabs exclusive PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds deal

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The game of the moment has signed a new video streaming deal with Facebook. Developer Bluehole has announced that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will stream exclusive content on Facebook Live starting today (July 10th) between 19:00-22:00 PDT (03:00-06:00 BST). It will then do the same every Monday. Each live video will show …

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Facebook introduces Rewarded Video ads

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Games publishers now have the option of utilising Rewarded Video in their Facebook titles. You may not be familiar with the term but you’ve very possibly encountered the system in mobile games. Rewarded Videos offer players the chance to watch a video ad in return for some sort of in-game …

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